Over 10 years in the making: Fitchburg cuts the ribbon on affordable housing project for artists  - CommonWealth Beacon

Over 10 years in the making: Fitchburg cuts the ribbon on affordable housing project for artists  - CommonWealth Beacon

WHEN A LOCAL DEVELOPER came to Fitchburg Art Museum director Nick Capasso more than a decade ago with an idea to create artist-preference housing downtown, he needed little convincing. But the rest of the city, including the Fitchburg City Council, wasn’t as receptive to the concept of a “creative economy.”   “Initially it was a foreign concept, because no one’s done artist housing here,” Capasso said. “We had spent years systematically educatin…